Power Of Belief Essay

On the film “The Power of Beliefs: Its Impact on Our Minds.” ABC News anchor John Stossel goes to a psychology lab and even walks through fire to investigate the power of belief as demonstrated by the placebo and "nocebo" effects and what psychologists call "magical thinking." Mr. Stossel takes a look at a wide range of phenomena that exist beyond the understanding of modern science, including astrology, faith healing, voodoo, channeling, and clairvoyance. ABC news reporter John Stossel, discuss on how in order to believe something we need proof. By doing that we need to see or experience it ourselves if what a person say or do is believable. Stossel introduces psychologist call Magical Thinking. Professor Robert Kavanaugh at Williams College in
How cults believe there is life after death. Then John Stossel talks about how a man got cured of cancer because of the faith he had. And how some other people go to voodoo priests to get healing or go for personal reasons. It says it is a fact that voodoo can hurt people, and how it’s the power of suggestion, that makes the people believe in the curse. Which causes their body to shut down. Meaning that if a person believes in the curse then it will happen. Even though this week of the PPT is focused on Aids in Haiti, I can link between the films and the PPT. The film “The power of Beliefs: Its Impact on Our Minds.” There can be variety of reasons that a person may get sick according to slide 8 in the PPT Aids and Accusation, it states that voodoo may be a concern involving sickness in a person body because it’s so strong and effective. And how people not only going to voodoo for spiritual healing they look for paranormal explanations. Such as physic abilities, witchcraft and occults, among others kind of unknown explanations of their supernatural world. People look for reason on how AIDS and other diseases can become lethal to hundreds of